BIB_ID
318524
Accession number
MA 849.1
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1760] Apr. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Laurence Sterne to his mistress Catherine Fourmantel, a professional singer whom he met in York in 1759. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Year of writing from Curtis.
Year of writing from Curtis.
Provenance
By descent to Mrs. Henry Weston, the daughter of a friend of Fourmantel's; John Murray (1778-1843), who allowed Isaac D'Israeli to publish five letters from this collection in his Miscellanies of Literature; by descent to his son John Murray (1808-1892); by descent to his grandson A.H. Hallam Murray; purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1912.
Summary
Regretting that she will be in York until the 14th "because it shortens the time I hoped to have stole in your Company when You come." Describing his busy schedule: noting that he must accompany Lord Rockingham to Windsor where he will be installed as Knight of the Garter with Prince Ferdinand and that directly after he must "go down to take Possession of my Preferment" (the perpetual curacy of Coxwold). Regretting that they are presently separated but assuring her that "God will open a Dore" and telling her that he loves her. Mentioning that he has fourteen engagements to dine.
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